Management Articles

Innovation Democracy: W.L. Gore's Original Management Model
by
Gary Hamel
"Was it possible to build a company with no hierarchyâ€”where everyone was free to talk with everyone else? How about a company where there were no bosses, no supervisors, no managers and no vice presidents?... Could you create a company with no 'core' business, one that was as focused on creating the future as on preserving the past? The answers to each of these questions was an emphatic "Yes!" And Gore quickly became a model for both organizational and product innovation (not to mention a remarkable business success)."